Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wire 98.3

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The result was delete all. - Mailer Diablo 11:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wire 98.3

Wire 98.3 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Hoax article. Station's callsign does not appear to the NTC's official list of FM stations in the Philippines - Danngarcia 16:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I would also like to nominate the following articles for the same reasons:

RM 105.5 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

RL 91.1 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

DZRL (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

95.9 Real FM (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

95.9 Real FM Cebu (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

DZRS (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

95.9 Real FM Davao (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

• Comment Can you present a more recent list of NTC-licensed radio stations? It's been seven years since June 2000. --Sky Harbor 00:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

  Comment NTC has yet to provide a new list of FM stations. I tried to Google the names of the companies who owns these stations, the results are there were no relevant links about the station. I may also add that DZRL and 95.9 Real FM according to their respective articles are based on Metro Manila, which I am sure that these stations does not exist. -Danngarcia 06:23, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Keep for now. The Wire page now has an external link to the radio station's webpage; it looks reasonable. A seven year old PDF really isn't good enough to determine whether it exists or not. I need to take a look at a recent copy of the World Radio TV Handbook to see if I can verify any of these. That being said, I don't think these were started in good faith; my guess would be they were started by employees based on the edit summaries. But such a large quantity of radio stations in the US have their own articles that these will probably be notable enough, so we should take some time to look at the hard copy source that may be able to give some answers. –152.7.54.228 08:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

  Comment If you will check out the "first air date" of these articles, you may notice that they were supposed to be founded from 1960 to 1990; WAY BEFORE the NTC list was created. If these stations existed for so many years, why is it not included to the list? -Danngarcia 09:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete without prejudice for recreation. A lot of radio station articles have popped up, and most of them were hoaxes. Either they don't exist or they're underground stations that can transmit for a short distance. --Howard the Duck 13:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. If and when some reliable sources are found then maybe the article can return. The other option is to merge the stations into new articles on the owners. That way there is a place for information to be developed so that it can be split out to new articles when we have reliable sources and notability is established. Vegaswikian 02:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. If a seven-year old PDF cannot provide sufficient evidence that these stations do exist (since they were established before the list was even compiled), then I see no reason for them to have articles in the first place. --Sky Harbor 17:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.